Wire cable clasp.



W. GAHILL & L. A.- GHATTELLF WIRE CABLE CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1912.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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WIRE CABLE CLASP.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 24, 1912. Serial No. 705,624.

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Be it known that we, WILLIAM OAHILL and Lonnnzo A. CHATTELLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Caledonia, in the county of Houston and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in lVire Cable Clasps; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the class of cord and rope holders, and more especially to those rope clamps or clasps having a pivoted part; and the object of the same is to produce a clasp of this character by means of which a cable or rope may be attached to any article such as a winding drum or a stump at any point in the cable without requiring that it be passed more than once around the article. This object is accomplished by constructing the clasp in the manner hereinafter more fully set forth in the specification and claims, and as shown in the drawings wherein V Figure l is a perspective view of this clasp complete with its lever open, and Fig.

I 2 is a perspective view showing the clasp is use as holding a rope around a stump.

In the drawings the device is illustrated as composed of two pieces of metal of about the shape and proportions as shown, and in practice the entire clasp will weigh about twenty-four pounds and will probably be of iron or steel and perhaps treated to prevent rust. We do not wish to be limited, however, to the details of construction further than as set forth in the appended claims, nor to the proportions, materials or sizes of parts.

Specifically the device comprises a lever member 1 which is by preference straight and of rectangular contour, slotted throughout most of its length as at 2 although the sides of the slot are connected at the outer end of the lever as at 3 and also by a trans verse web 4 near its inner end, thereby leaving the latter forked as shown at 5. The arms of the fork are bent downward and preferably rounded as shown at 6 and notched in their lower edges as at 7 where they join the lower edge of the body of the levermember 1, and said arms are pierced with alined holes for the passage of a pivot pin 8 which may be a rivet, bolt, or any desired member. The other or body member 10 of this device is also by preference rectangular in cross section but much thinner than the lever member 1, and in fact it should be suficiently thin to permit its up turned inner end 11 to pass between the fork arms so that it can be mounted on the pivot pin .8. Adjacent this end the upper edge of the body is notched as at 12, and this notch co-acts with the notches 7 in the lower edge of the lever. the body member neck 13 and is projected thence obliquely upward and backward into a hook 1 standing above the upper edge of the body as best seen in Fig. 1.

One use. of this clasp is shown in Fig. 2, Where a rope R is passed around any such article as a stump S, and'its extremity or end E laid over the upper edge of the body member 10 and into its notch 12, then The outer end of Patented Nov. a, 19 1a.

10 turns upward in a the I lever member is turned downward around its pivot 8 and its notches 7 co-act with the notch 12 and firmly engage the end E of the rope R. The latter passes from this point around the article S, and is laid across the upper edge of the lever member and under the lower edge of the hook 14, which of course will have been passed upward through the slot 2 as the two members of the clasp were folded together. The lower edge 15 of the hook is by preference bent downward a little as best seen in Fig. 1, so, that when the rope R is passed under the same as seen in Fig. 2 there will be little or no tendency for it to slip out from beneath the hook whether it is under tension or not. The result is that the rope, in this use of the device, forms a retaining element which holds the hook raised and the hook through its connection by means of the neck 13 with the body holds the body raised, and as long as the body remains raised with respect to the lever the notch 12 of said body will co-act with the notches 7 of the body to hold the rope end E firmly gripped-yet there will ever be a tendency for the parts to open, due to the expansive force of the rope end E, and therefore the bill of the hook 14 will always be pressed downward upon the rope R and the latter will not loosen around the article S if the tension upon the rope is relaxed. Obviously the parts are disconnected by raising the body member with reference to the lever member slightly so that the lower edge 15 of the hook is lifted off the rope R,- then moving the latter to disengage it from the tip of the hook and permit the latter to drop to the position shown in Fig. 1, when the notches release the rope end E.

The device is capable of other uses not necessary to illustrate. The clasping action takes place between the notches adjacent the main pivot 8, when the outer ends of the two members are brought toward each other i to such an extent that the hook passes through the slot, and while the rope itself is shown in Fig. 2 as serving in the nature of a retaining element which passes across the top of the lever and under the bill of the hook, it is quite obvious that any other retaining element could be inserted at this point, and doubtless some other element would be employed if the rope were not passed around an article as illustrated in Fig. 2.

What is claimed as new is 1. The herein described clasp comprising a substantially straight lever member having its inner end turned downward and forked and its lower edge notched adjacent the fork-arms, and a body member having its inner end turned upward and pivoted between the fork-arms and its upper edge notched adjacent the latter to coact with the notch in the lever-member and clasp an article the outer end of the body member being bent upward and backward into a hook whose lower edge is adapted to stand above the upper edge of the lever member when said notches engage the article being clasped, for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein described clasp consisting of upper and lower members pivotally connected with each other at their inner ends and having registering notches in their contiguous edges adjacent said pivot and adapted to grip a flexible element, one member being slotted toward its other end and the other member being bent upward and obliquely inward from its outer end into a hook adapted to pass through said slot as the members are drawn together, the lower edge of the hook of this member standing above the upper edge of the opposite member when said notches coact to clasp the article being engaged, the lower edge of the hook and the upper edge of the slotted member forming gripping jaws for engagement of a flexible element.

ln'testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM GAHILL. LORENZO A. CHATTELLE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. L. Mn'roALr, CHAS. A. DORIVAL.

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Washington, D. C. 

